Oral Health Promotion Team (from 2017)

The Happy Smiles Award

This exciting programme has been designed to be used throughout your primary school, to improve children’s oral health.The programme should be completed within an academic year, working together to give positive health messages, to achieve good health outcomes.

The Oral Health Promotion Team have produced a training resource designed to give teachers some evidence based oral health information that will help to support oral health sessions or projects within the classroom.

We would really appreciate any feedback. If you could spare a few minutes to complete the evaluation form and send it back to us as instructed within the pack, we would be very grateful. After receiving this evaluation, we will send a certificate to you as proof of completing the training.

Oral Health Promotion Sessions

Tooth decay, in most cases, can be prevented when children are motivated to improve their oral hygiene and snack options. The oral health promotion team is skilled in delivering sessions (designated schools only), providing resources online and training for staff (face to face and online).

Here are some suggestions for lesson planning. We have designed and produced work books for all Key Stages which correspond to these lessons:

Key Stage 1 Puppets or stories with interactive resources, which introduce tooth brushing, diet and dental visits in a fun and interactive way.

Key Stage 2 (Years 5 & 6) The process of decay, diet, reading food labels, recognising sugar contained in products. At the end of the session the students will have compiled a work book containing all the information.